Am I Really Sleeping?

jynantonnix, Yes it is a very creepy experience.

I love reading about others experiences and I will definitely read everyone's stories here. I will try to submit a few more stories also.

I had something really similar happen once. I actually posted this recently in answer to the story "spirits in the bedroom", but it went unnoticed as the original post was not quite new. It was definitely one of the weirdest and most "real" seeming creepy experience I've ever had, but as it was so easily explained away by mundane means, I didn't think it warranted its own post. In any case, here's a restatement of what happened:

"Dreams can be incredibly real. I hope it's ok if I share something here as it's somewhat on topic. If I thought there was any chance it was paranormal I'd write a story about it, but it's just not.

Some years ago, I came down with a really vicious stomach bug. Not pretty. I couldn't keep anything down at all, and was completely wiped out from constantly vomiting up nothing by the next day.

We happened to be fairly good friends with a doctor and his wife who lived next door (military housing), and I finally called her to see whether her husband could recommend some medication or course of action, and he was kind enough to write me out a prescription and bring it over on his lunch break.

I forget the name of the medication, but it did work, and also left me in a very woozy, half-conscious state. And during this time, over the course of a few hours, every time I closed my eyes, I'd drift off, and start to feel a pair of hands around my ankles, slowly, inexorably pulling me toward the end of the bed and sometimes all the way to the floor and down the hall before I struggled back to wakefulness and found I had not moved. I have never forgotten (and it's been 20 years) just how real and terrifying it felt. And only marginally better than puking up my guts every 5 minutes."

ifihadyoux, if you click on my username you'll see my story.

at rich, did you write your own story about the encounter? Would like to read it.

When my house became haunted last year, I started having dreams exactly like this. They were almost always the same. I would be lying awake in bed. I knew it was coming for me and started to be afraid. I could sense it coming and getting closer and closer, and then there it was. The attack would be swift and vicious. I would feel incredible crushing and twisting forces on my body, like I was being dropped into crashing ocean surf, and then it would pull me off the bed and drop me on the floor. Sometimes it would drag me to another part of the house. I would be unable to scream or fight. These dreams are so realistic that even after I wake up I don't realize I had been dreaming for a while. I'd look around my room and say to myself, "that was really a dream?" Like you said, it doesn't feel like a dream; it feels absolutely real. That's what's so terrifying about it. If that was the only one you've had, you're lucky. You will never forget it. Mine continue to happen.

I ❤ reading ghost stories all the time and not one truly scares me but this one. Just imaginng the fact that a ghost is ripping out your soul is scary enough.

That sounds like what may have happened. It is still very creepy in a way.

The weird part was that I kind of knew I was out of my body. Still very strange and creepy to know.

Well, I would definitely have to say that it's a lucid dream. What I cannot tell you is the meaning of it or even really hazard a guess at that.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

It is a very interesting phenomenon.

I have experienced this a couple of time, but this one by far was the scariest.

No I didn't have a fever. It was more of becoming a cold, pretty much a little runny nose and sniffles.

Oh creepy creepy creepy creepy creepy! 😭

You gave me the shivers reading that. That might have been an out of body experience of some sort. Makes me think of a horror movie that I can't remember the name of. I think its called insidious.

Is this the only time you experienced something like this?

Did you have a high fever, by chance?

I am just trying to rule out that possibility.